Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
Making Money Funny
Matt Levine’s spunky Bloomberg column
by Max J. Krupnick
Off the Shelf: Recent Books with Harvard Connections
Tax follies, Thomas Sowell, Donald Hall, and more
A Surfing Author’s Children’s Book
In the swim with Bonnie Tsui
by S.I. Rosenbaum
Under Review: Tony Saich on Chinese Communism at 100
The first century of the Chinese Communist Party—and what impends
Open Book: The Case for Commitment
Pete Davis expands on his Commencement address.
Melvin Miller ’56: “Not going…to stand aside”
The founder, editor, and publisher of The Bay State Banner profiled
by Juliet Isselbacher
Transitions Gradual and Cataclysmic
Andrew Knoll on the planet’s past—and fraught future
by Jonathan Shaw
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
al-Hariri
Brief life of a master storyteller
by Michael Cooperson
The Tensions That Roiled Texas
Annette Gordon-Reed on the real history of Texas, and Juneteenth
Finding Voices
Marilyn Booth translates Arabic literature for Anglophone readers.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield